Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-24


I vas wsli q night and died At 10 in the
morning."
Witness the calm resignation Of one
whe lies a. Painawich. GloaoesteFsAire
England.
"My time has eomsl my days are spent;
/ YES called aaay-and away ! went.
A tombstone 10 the Isle Of wight has
inscribed upon 10 the toaohine story
Il the apothe0sia OF Margaret GWyL
through Al unusual hatehvay:
Here lies the bones Of Margaret Gwyn,
She vas 50 very pure within,
She cracked her outer shell OF sin
And hatehed herself q seFaphim.S
The aiseoRsolate widow Of an Enelish
landlord thus advertised the oontinu-
anee Of the tavern business on a. cpl
taph OF her iamentsd husband;
Here lies the landlord Of the Lion.
He's buried here IN she hopes Of Zion ;
His wife. resigned 10 heaven's will,
Carries on the business still"
"fbe evil that men do lives after
them. bat The good il inferred with
their bones"
The following epitaph tells Of one
phe took nothing good with bis bones
Here lies John Hill. q man Of skill,
His age vas i've times ten;
He never did good, nor ever would,
Had he lived % long again."
And bat for this preserved epitaph
would have passed away "unh0noFed
kindred dust, like poor Mathew Mudd,
astold in the following epitaph;
Here Lies MATHEW Modd.
Death did hin no hart
When alive be was mud,
Now he's nothing bot dirt"
Epitaphs are sometimes the vehicles
Of rejoicing, aa given in the following
Oh . graveyard sexton;
"Hurrahl my brave boys, let's rejoice
10 hia fail,
For Il be bad lived. be had buried
as ALL"
The same vein Of exnltaiion runs
through the epitaph Of the ssxfon's
silent partner, enc DR.. ChaEd:
Here lies the remains OF DR.. Chard,
Who allied this half Of the graveyard"
How glad the good people Of Dundee
epitaph on the arbitrary provost:
provost Peter Paterson was Provost Of
Dundee,
Provost Peter Patterson. here lies be.
HallAIuiah. Hallaluisel"
stephen, fiddler, nov gone to the
place 10 which al good ladders are said
10 40, and which Ia reported full Of
them, kept, for years, the country dance
going. and kept good time with his
feet; but. alaal eoald not evade his own
time when u came, for bis epitsph
reads;
stephen and Tins
Are nov bat even;
Stephen beat time,
Now Time beats Stephen"
The following epitaph carries with il
fespeci fer the widows anguish, and be
who reads Il In the cemetery whispers
low, less % wake him from his sleep;
SACRED 10 ths memory Of my has
band. Passers. pray for his soafa 70.
Pose; bat pray not aloud. de is not
aeld, hus sieepeth.n
Ne matter Whai The degree Of kinship,
OF What the character of life's pursuit,
10 class can escape the epitaphs the
brother. the BANNER. the photographer,
the paupsv, or she woodman. 10 each Of
them q parting shos is given on the
tomb as follows
TIE Brother
Erected 10 che memory q
John Pbiliips,
aeoidently shot,
as a mark 81 affection,
by bis brother"
Ths BANNER;
Here lie the remains Of Caleb
humn.
hy trade bum.
When Caleb died
The devil cried.
Come, Caleb. come"
The Photographer:
Here lie. taken from life"
TIE PAapeFs
~HaFe he a. the ehaneel door
Hers | lie because ! am poef.
Ths further 10 the more 20 pay;
Here lie | ~ warm as they
The Woodman,
~Ths Lord say good, I was lOppinR
weod,
And down fell from tree;
met uith cheek and broke my meek,
And 81 death logged al me-